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List:       mercurial
Subject:    Re: Rename file only by case
From:       Matt Mackall <mpm () selenic ! com>
Date:       2013-02-09 12:25:36
Message-ID: 1360412736.3873.39.camel () calx
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On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 14:36 +0100, Roger Kratz wrote:
> << I assume it is a problem because you are on Windows.>>
> 
> Yes, I'm on win. Didn't think that matters if the OS treated file
> names as case sensitive or not but instead Hg somehow kept the file
> name as a "case sensitive string" in its db - but I was obviously
> wrong in my (newbee) thoughts...

Mercurial can't know if you intend to share your repository with Unix
users or indeed if it came from Unix, so it must preserve case
internally.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.


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